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| Title: |
Victims and Patrons: Strategic Alliances and the Anti-Politics of Victimhood among Displaced Chagossians and their Supporters |
| Author: |
Jeffery, Laura |
| Appeared in: |
History and anthropology |
| Paging: | Volume 17 (2006) nr. 4 pages 297-312 |
| Year: |
2006-12-01 |
| Contents: |
This article examines victimhood as a strategy pursued by organizations representing displaced Chagos islanders living in Mauritius, the Seychelles and the UK. The Chagossian community is a small and marginalized community, and Chagossian organizations need to make strategic alliances with other interest groups in order to further their cause nationally and internationally. External support groups are, however, attracted to the Chagossian cause on the basis of differing conceptions of victimhood that imply different adversaries and collective identities and mutually exclusive imagined futures, some of which are also incompatible with the futures planned by Chagossians and their descendants. Thus whilst identification of the Chagossians as “victims” is ubiquitous, strategic alliances have resulted in diverse political strategies and mutually exclusive visions of the future. Portraying themselves as depoliticized victims is a pragmatic necessity that enables Chagossian representatives to justify the apparent ideological inconsistencies these alliances entail. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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